@botvolution@AnarchoNinaWrites You can read my rebuttal below. Giving lots of extra money to the statistically richest demographic is a terrible idea. The literal opposite of "fair".
@AnarchoNinaWrites please, please don't mistake all pensioners for poor people! In the UK, there's hundreds of thousands are "investment experts" in their own heads because they bought two houses 55 to 35 years ago, and are now loaded. Worse, they seem to think that eating £15 less food a week will turn into a £50k+ 10% house deposit in 2 years, "cause that's how they did it"!
@aral So in your world, how do you sell a customer a thing, without having to have a salesman call them? Oh wait, phone numbers can't be collected either, without permission... Yes, many sites are using it for adverts, but lots are also trying to sell a product that isn't the browser.
@dalias@johan@babe He's spending billions on healthcare, vaccines, feeding the starving, and education. He's doing more than the entire US government is, and certainly more than almost any other billionaire out there.
@hacks4pancakes Unintentionally? At least two of elno's brownshirts are Russian linked hackers, all are techbros, they know full well what "privilege escalation" means.
@WiseWoman@grheavyroller@pluralistic it doesn't work though, because you then lose all the replies and interaction, because they all get trashed with "long thread" too!
@frang@cdarwin@pluralistic those speedbumps in the road? They save lots of lives. They cost a lot of money to put there.
Cattle grids limit speed and weight and slow some people right down. But just because the cows are out of sight today doesn't mean you should remove them.
@artemis I think the most important thing is to consider the source. So many these days lie for the sake of lying. Keep track of the liars, and make sure to assume they're lying the next time around!
@pluralistic I would just like to say that I'm glad you're carrying on. A few of the really good newsletters I'm subbed to have just ceased with no notice this past month or so. A particular loss was Wondercade from Neil Patrick Harris.
@Milkman76@glenatron@cstross This. The right wing have won the battle to keep most people from masking. Apparently in the USA not even medical staff do it any more! Like they did before covid even existed!
@Milkman76@glenatron@cstross Pretty sure that the USA didn't force Putin to invade Ukraine in 2014, nor again in 2021? Nor to support the Asad regime and force literally millions of refugees into the EU for his own ends over a decade?
@niedlichenacktschnecke@adaddinsane@Tinido there's several, no? The Odyssey, the labours of Hercules, Troy. All the big known ones feature a hero going off on his journey. Often several times!